UPTON, NY - Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and the University of Wurzburg, Germany, have deciphered the structure of a large ...

Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, such as those in taste buds, can interact with specific things in the environment ...

If Sébastien Vidal sees a mistake in a published chemical structure—a missing double bond or a hydroxyl group drawn in the wrong configuration—it “hurts my eyes immediately,” he says. Vidal, an ...

Sugar has long seduced the human palate — and wreaked havoc on public health. Now, researchers have taken a decisive step towards understanding how. “This single receptor is responsible for our ...

Researchers have used cryo- electron microscopy to elucidate for the first time the structure and function of a very small enzyme embedded in cell membranes. This enzyme builds complex sugar trees ...